This video takes up the difference between Slavoj Žižek and Noam Chomsky, specifically their arguments regarding epistemology and ontology. The aim is to demonstrate that Slavoj Žižek's strange materialism is more helpful for would be modernists who want to make progress happen through radical change than Chomsky's reluctant idealism.
Steve Paxton both studied with GA Cohen at Oxford before and works blue-collar, white-collar and no-collar jobs.
His book, Unlearning Marx considers Marx without Marxism.
The theories of Karl Marx and the practical existence of the Soviet Union are inseparable in the public imagination, but for all the wrong reasons. This book provides detailed analyses of both Marx’s theory of history and the course of Russian and Soviet development and delivers a new and insightful approach to the relationship between the two.
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSU2XUFcXI
Matthew McManus interviews Rob Larson on the subject of Digital Capitalism. Rob Larson is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College and author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, out now from Haymarket Books and the author of Capitalism vs. Freedom from Zero Books.
Matthew McManus is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Tec de Monterrey. His upcoming work include two books on post-modern conservatism for Palgrave MacMillan and Zero Books, and "Making Human Dignity Central to International Law" for the University of Wales Press.
Relevant Books
Capitalism vs. Freedom by Rob Larson
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalism-freedom
Myth and Mayhem by Matthew McManus
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/myth-mayhem-leftist-critique-jordan-peterson
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OP3819PPws
From "Bataille: Nietzsche or Communism? An Interview with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon" https://youtu.be/VZYugV0DyYk #shorts
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHNHUNnuqrc
Buy the books mentioned in the discussion:
The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-english-heretic-collection-ritual-histories-magickal-geography/
The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World: https://watkinspublishing.com/books/the-astral-geographic-the-watkins-guide-to-the-occult-world/:
Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/
Craig from Acid Horizon sits down with fellow Repeater author Andy Sharp to discuss various political implications of James Hillman's theory of dreams, namely the how "the underworld" of our dreams resists the dictates of life under capitalism. Also featured in the discussion is Mark Fisher's 'acid communism' and the life and work of the mysterious alchemist Fulcanelli.
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Acid Horizon
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_BC_w49oG0
Stepping back from the now-dated feud between AOC and Jimmy Dore, this video explores how Georg Lukacs thought that Capitalist Realism or the reality of capitalism would lead to the development of class consciousness and socialism.
Original Essay as Published on Substack
https://douglaslain.substack.com/p/beyond-jimmy-dore-and-aoc
Relevant Books
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism
The Standpoint of the Proletariat by Georg Lukacs
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc07_1.htm
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Zero Books Manifesto:
The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUiit4AgSuo
Ben Burgis recounts his twitter encounter with the reactionary race realist youtuber and “logic” bros Stefan Molyneux. It turns out that Molyneux doesn’t know the difference between a sound and a valid argument, but he’s also unwilling to be corrected. Molyneux’s blocking Burgis on twitter and his subsequent subtweeting was “not an argument.”
Zero Books Logo Animations and other animations donated by Brian Cole
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Book and Works Cited
Give Them and Argument: Logic for the Left by Ben Burgis
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVEM1Yo-cYI
Matthew McManus' launches his book "What is Postmodern Conservatism" at Tec de Monterrey Campus.
Relevant Book
What is Post-Modern Conservatism? by Matt McManus
https://www.amazon.com/What-Post-Modern-Conservatism-Essays-Tremendous/dp/1789042453
https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Post-Modern-Conservatism-Essays-Tremendous/dp/1789042453
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ivARBcUJw4
This video tackles the following topics: modern despair, the urge to log off, and our fading nostalgia for cyberutopia. It features excerpts from an upcoming book by RU Sirius entitled "The Freaks in the Machine" and some speculation about Matt Christman’s upcoming book for Zero, a book tentatively entitled “Behold a Fail Horse." That second title is still being written. If you're a fan of Christman tweet some words of encouragement to him.
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkHW0zvL39U
Buy the book here: https://repeaterbooks.com/audiobooks/different-class-the-untold-story-of-english-cricket/
In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: “What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?”
A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the game’s elitist orthodoxy. Regrettably, he failed, and the history of cricket in England remains as it did a century ago — until now.
In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not merely challenge the orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were developed in order to divide the English at every level of the game.
Indeed, be it the discrete cricket cultures of the “urban” North and the “rural” South of England, gender, social class or race; the history of recreational cricket tells us more about the (un)changing nature of English society — and how it works — than any study of the first-class game ever could.
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Acid Horizon
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_u7pDsDkqY